3/1 Vermont Weather Noon: 16° Below Normal

Good afternoon. Vermont. I'm Aaron Jolly. Folks. Canadian high pressure has muscled in behind last night's cold front. and it brought its A game. Step outside right now and you're feeling about 20 degrees. That's 16 degrees below normal for the first day of March. Northwest winds at 5 to 8 miles an hour make it sting just enough. Sunny skies look gorgeous through the window. but that sunshine is all show, no warmth. In the next 24 hours. Highs today top out around 21 to 22 degrees statewide. Pretty uniform cold from Bennington to Newport. Now tonight is where things get serious. Clear skies and calm winds set up textbook radiational cooling. Southern Vermont drops to minus 9. Central Vermont bottoms out near minus 4. Push into the Northeast Kingdom and you're right back at minus 9. Wind chills near minus 12 up there by midnight. That's frostbite territory on exposed skin in under 30 minutes. Cover up. Monday morning is brutal. Wind chills range from 10 to 20 below zero across the state. Southern Vermont only reaches 15 degrees for a high. Central Vermont climbs to 22. The Kingdom tops out at 19. Keep that engine block warm overnight if you can. Now the plot twist. Tuesday, snow develops late. Southern Vermont picks up 1 to 3 inches, possibly changing over to rain. Then temperatures rocket through the 30s and 40s midweek. By Saturday? We could touch 51 degrees. That's a 30 degrees swing from where you're standing right now. And that freeze and thaw pattern? That's liquid gold for Vermont sugarmakers. Sap should be running beautifully by midweek. In Sunrise hit 6, 32 A.M. Today. Sunset comes at 5:41 P.M. We're gaining over 3 minutes of daylight. Spring is clawing its way back, one minute at a time. I'll be tracking that Tuesday snow all night. Check back with me tomorrow. For the extended outlook, check the latest forecast as confidence improves. That's your forecast — we'll be back tomorrow.